Word: sparring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saturday, President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge accompanied other football enthusiasts to Baltimore, but their presence was almost out of mind when Cadet Garbisch of the Army started kicking field goals at the Navy's cross-spar. Once, twice, thrice, four times, eight times he lifted the ball, at various angles and altitudes, and four times the ball passed over. Score: Army 12, Navy...
...float the ship. During the storm, which lasted two days and drove the tugs, standing by, to harbor, the Captain and three radio men lost their lives. The ship is a complete loss, wedged on the reef with a 100° list, wrecked pilothouse gone, light bulkheads crushed, spar deck swept clean, gun-deck partially under water and littered with wreckage, engine rooms obstructed with wreckage and filled two feet deep with sand and coral, the starboard side crushed, one funnel, topmast and all top hamper down or overboard...
With the new proposal, therefore, the public in general, and devotees of the sail and spar in particular, rejoiced and gave thanks that at last they were about to witness some genuine races, between hardy, seagoing fishing schooners. This, however, is apparently not to be the case. The American sponsors of the Columbia, this year's entry from Gloucester, have been requested to forward exact sail measurements to the Halifax trustees of the Trophy. The inhabitants of Gloucester seem to have a premonition that the Columbia's sails will not fit Halifax requirements, in which case, according to the sages...